Literature and research
Writings on Harry Pepl and his music. We welcome pointers to further publications, theses and broadcasts.
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Encyclopaedias and reference works
- Hartmut Krones (2024): Pirchner, Werner (Österreichisches Musiklexikon online). Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, last content update 2024; DOI 10.1553/0x0001dd2a, Vienna. Online freely available online Names Pirchner, together with Pepl, as founder of the JazzZwio in 1975. Cite and export
- Franz Kerschbaumer (2023): Jazz. Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, last content update 2023; DOI 10.1553/0x0001d302, Vienna. Online freely available online The overview article on jazz in Austria mentions Pepl twice: as a guitarist with international projects, among others with Michel Portal, Jack DeJohnette and Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and in the list of important instrumentalists. Cite and export
- Alexander Rausch (2022): Reisinger, Wolfgang. Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, last content update 2022; DOI 10.1553/0x0001dee2, Vienna. Online freely available online In 1984 Reisinger, the Austrian jazz drummer, founded the trio Air Mail with Pepl and Wolfgang Puschnig. Cite and export
- Emanuel Wenger (2022): Salesny, Clemens. Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, last content update 2022; DOI 10.1553/0x003d3db1, Vienna. Online freely available online Names Pepl among the musicians with whom the saxophonist Clemens Salesny worked (posthumous projects with Pepl’s original tracks). Cite and export
- Christian Fastl (2021): Sokal, Harry. Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, last content update 2021; DOI 10.1553/0x0001e2b3, Vienna. Online freely available online Names Pepl among the musicians with whom the saxophonist Harry Sokal worked. Cite and export
- Mathias Münter-Elfner, Michael Venhoff (Red.) (2006): Brockhaus-Enzyklopädie, Jahrbuch 2005, Kurzeintrag „Pepl, Harry“. F. A. Brockhaus 2006, 400 S., ISBN 978-3-7653-1915-0. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive Short entry in the section on people who died in 2005: Austrian jazz guitarist. The yearbook gives 1944 as the year of birth; the correct year is 1945. Whether the main volumes of the 21st edition contain an article has not been checked. Cite and export
- Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart (MGG) (2005): Pirchner, Werner. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 2 Ausgabe, Personenteil, Kassel: Bärenreiter, Sp. 617, Kassel. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitt In its article on Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, the leading German-language music encyclopaedia writes: “In 1975, together with the guitarist Harry Pepl, he founded the JazzZwio (Gegenwind), whose tours helped to anchor Austrian jazz internationally.” Cite and export
- Peter Stachel (2004): Pepl, Harry. Österreichisches Musiklexikon online, founded by Rudolf Flotzinger, edited by Barbara Boisits; last content update 28 July 2004, Vienna. Online freely available online (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AT) DOI 10.1553/0x0001dca6; literature references in the article: Kunzler, Jazz-Lexikon 2002, and Melhardt, Swing that Music! 2002. Print edition: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon, vol. 4, Vienna 2005, p. 1742 (as cited by Bruckner-Haring 2013). Cite and export
- Wolf Kampmann (Hg.), Sachlexikon von Ekkehard Jost (2003): Reclams Jazzlexikon, Eintrag „Pepl, Harry“. Stuttgart: Reclam 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5; 2 Auflage 2009 (dort nicht geprüft), Stuttgart. Online Bibliothek und Handel; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive A personal entry (g, p, acc) covering his training in Vienna, his teaching at the Graz music university since 1977 and releases such as “Cracked Mirrors” (1987) and the solo recording. Further mentions in other entries, for example on the duo Jazz Zwio with Werner Pirchner, the Austrian composer and vibraphonist, and on the 1983 trio album Pirchner/Pepl. The lexicon gives 1944 as the year of birth; the correct date is 10 September 1945. Cite and export
- Kunzler (2002): Jazz-Lexikon. Martin Kunzler: Jazz-Lexikon, vol. 2: M to Z, vollständig überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuausgabe, Reinbek: Rowohlt Taschenbuch 2002 (rororo 16513), p. 906 f. (entry Pepl), Reinbek. Entry on Pepl in volume 2 (pp. 906 f.); the entry is already in the first edition of 1988 (volume 2, p. 906 according to the index). Further mentions in volume 1 (2002), for example under Joos and Pirchner. Cited in Kohler 2006 and in the Österreichisches Musiklexikon. The lexicon gives 1944 as the year of birth; the correct date is 10 September 1945. The entry “Portal, Michel” also names Pepl as a member of Portal's group with Jack DeJohnette, Mino Cinelu and Jean-François Jenny-Clark, already in the first edition of 1988; the 2002 edition adds “Turbulence” (1986) and “Men's Land” (1987) with Dave Liebman. Cite and export
- All Music Guide (Redaktion) (2002): All Music Guide to Jazz. The Definitive Guide to Jazz Music. 4 Ausgabe, San Francisco: Backbeat Books 2002, p. 1053, San Francisco. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive A mention in an album review on Enrico Rava: his quartet with the guitarist Harry Pepl, Furio Di Castri and Bruce Ditmas. Cite and export
- Axel Melhardt (2002): Swing that music! 30 Jahre Jazzland. Ein sehr persönliches Jazzland-Lexikon. Wien: Pichler 2002, ISBN 3-85431-275-X, Vienna. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive A lexicon of the bands that played at the Vienna jazz club Jazzland, written by the club’s founder. A band entry of its own on the duo Pepl/Pirchner, plus mentions under the Harry Pepl Trio, the Albert Mair Trio, the Josel Trio (LP “Jazz und Orgel”) and Austria Drei; the author calls Pepl an “always exciting” guitarist there. The Österreichisches Musiklexikon (Austria’s national music encyclopaedia) lists the book as literature on Pepl. Cite and export
- Stanley Sadie (Hg.) (2001): The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2. Ausgabe, Artikel „Pirchner, Werner“. London und New York: Macmillan und Grove 2001, vol. 19, London. Online Bibliothek; Oxford Music Online kostenpflichtig; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive The leading English-language music encyclopaedia names Pirchner as co-founder of the Pirchner-Pepl JazzZwio (1975 to 1985) with the guitarist Harry Pepl. According to Crossref there is no Grove article of its own on Pepl. Cite and export
- Carlo Bohländer, Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr (2000): Reclams Jazzführer. Stuttgart: Reclam 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5, Stuttgart. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive In the entry on Herbert Joos: his own formations, among them, since 1987, the trio with Harry Pepl and Jon Christensen. Cite and export
- Colin Larkin (Hg.) (1998): The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. 3 Ausgabe, London und New York: Muze und Macmillan 1998 (Register vol. 8: p. 2890); frühere Ausgaben als „The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music“, Enfield: Guinness 1992 und 1995 (p. 2219), London. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive A mention in the discography of another article, presumably on Herbert Joos: “Cracked Mirrors” (1987) with Harry Pepl and Jon Christensen. This resolves the lead “The Encyclopedia of Popular Music” from the Google Books list of 17 October 2026. Cite and export
- Günther (1997): Eintrag zu Harry Pepl, S. 824 bis 826. Bernhard Günther (Hg.): Lexikon zeitgenössischer Musik aus Österreich. Komponisten und Komponistinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts, Wien: music information center austria 1997, 1268 S.; entry Pepl p. 824 to 826, Vienna. Kohler cites the work partly as “Günther 1997”, partly as “Bernhard 1997”; both refer to the same title (Bernhard is the editor’s first name). Contains Pepl’s statements about himself from 1996, including on art as the „letztem Ort der Transzendenz“ [“the last place of transcendence”]. Cite and export
- Moschner und Teufert (1996): Eintrag zu Harry Pepl, S. 229 bis 230. Margarethe Moschner, Helmut Teufert: Die Komponisten des Industrieviertels und ihre Musik, hg. vom Industrieviertelmuseum Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt: Weilburg-Verlag 1996, 407 S.; entry Pepl p. 229 to 230, Wiener Neustadt. Cited in Kohler 2006 in connection with the sentence from Le Monde and with Pepl’s works. The authors’ names and the year match Kohler’s citation; the Google Books hit of Saturday, 17 October 2026 confirms that Pepl appears in it. Cite and export
- Richard Cook, Brian Morton (1994): The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, LP and Cassette. 2 Auflage, London: Penguin Books 1994, p. 1028, 1077 und 1135; der entry steht auch in den Folgeausgaben 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 und 2004 sowie in „The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings“ (2006), London. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitte The standard British guide to jazz on record has an entry of its own for “Harry Pepl” (p. 1028, after Gary Peacock) and gives three stars to “Volver” (ECM 1343, with Enrico Rava, Dino Saluzzi, Furio Di Castri and Bruce Ditmas, recorded in October 1986) under both Rava (p. 1077) and Saluzzi (p. 1135). In the third edition of 1996, the entry on Michel Portal also lists “Turbulence” (HMC 905186) with “Harry Pepl (g)” in the line-up; “Men's Land” does not appear in the editions from 1994 to 2006. Cite and export
- Österreichische Gesellschaft für Musik (1994): Beiträge 9: Komponistenverzeichnis. Harald Goertz: Österreichische Komponisten unserer Zeit, Kassel: Bärenreiter [1994], 175 S. (Beiträge der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Musik, 9), p. 110, Kassel. Online Google Books, Suchausschnitt Directory of Austrian composers published by the Austrian Society for Music (author: Harald Goertz, title “Österreichische Komponisten unserer Zeit”), with the entry “PEPL Harry, * 10. 9. 1945 in Wien” (born 10 September 1945 in Vienna, Austria); Pepl is listed as a composer alongside the representatives of contemporary music. Cite and export
- Barry Graves, Siegfried Schmidt-Joos, Bernie Sigg (1990): Rock-Lexikon, Band 1. Reinbek: Rowohlt 1990 (rororo-Handbuch 6320), 549 S., ISBN 3-499-16320-9; Erstausgabe 1973, Reinbek. Online Bibliothek; bei Google Books ohne Leseprobe Google Books reports a hit for “Harry Pepl” on p. 183, but without snippet text. In which article Pepl appears is open; do not use as evidence for any statement in the text. Cite and export
- Philippe Carles, André Clergeat, Jean-Louis Comolli (1988): Dictionnaire du jazz. Paris: Robert Laffont 1988; Neuausgabe 1994 (Register „Pepl, Harry“: p. 483, 617 und 1215), Paris. Online Bibliothek; Volltextsuche frei im Internet Archive The standard French jazz dictionary mentions Pepl in three places, among others among the European guitarists alongside Wolfgang Muthspiel and Gérard Marais and in a list of partners alongside Mino Cinelu and Jack DeJohnette. Documented in both editions. Cite and export
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